Comment on DuckDuckGo’s AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month

ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not sure where you live, but here in the US, bats tend to be one of the biggest carriers of rabies alongside various animals that depend on the state. You can actually look up which animals are the primary carriers within a state (if you’re here). Outside of the US, naturally it varies from country to country, but you’d still be looking at bats, plus potentially stray dogs and such. It’ll take some effort, but you should eventually be able to find a carrier.

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  I would expect with the nondeterminism and the regular evolution of search results that reproducing the output would be difficult even if DDG didn’t make a patch already. It’s really easy to get these “AI overviews” to make up random shit, though. All you have to do is search normally about a topic that the model wasn’t trained on, and there’s a good chance it’s making shit up, even if only in part of the answer.

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